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Amazon announced earlier this week that lockscreen ads won’t be present on newly-purchased Prime Exclusive devices and an update is rolling out to the Amazon Offers app to disable them on existing handsets. If you don’t want to wait, you can sideload that update right now.

Amazon’s Prime Exclusive Phones program has been a great way to grab an Android device on the cheap since its introduction in 2016, but the discount has always come with some compromise: a locked bootloader, Amazon-flavored bloatware, and—perhaps most annoyingly—ads on your lockscreen.

Anker only recently moved into the competitive Bluetooth headphone space. Last year the company created a very successful Kickstarter for its Liberty+ headphones, and now those of us unlucky enough to miss out on that early bird pricing can get in on the action, too. Both the Liberty+ and Liberty are now discounted on Amazon via coupon codes, for a mere $ 79 and $ 119, respectively.

We haven’t reviewed the smaller Liberty headphones, but Anker’s ZOLO Liberty+ are among our recent favorites.

Anker makes some of the best mobile phone accessories around, particularly when it comes to its ever-reliable chargers and cables. Even better when they are discounted, which thankfully is fairly often. Today, Anker is offering a 5-port wall charger with 1 power delivery port discounted by almost 40%, as well as a car charger and a couple of cables.

Take a look at the deals below, and use the code listed for each one to knock the money off at the checkout:

30 days ago, Amazon announced that it was in the process of assorting Apple TVs and Chromecasts to start selling them again. Since then, the Apple TV and Apple TV 4K have been available and sold on the site, but the Chromecast and Chromecast Ultra are still showing as “Currently unavailable” from Amazon, with no third-party sellers at all. Even searching for “Chromecast” on Amazon doesn’t bring up the product pages linked above, you’d have to know the URL to see them.

After the holidays are over, we’re bound to see the deals swarm us once again. For now, though, you can take a breather and enjoy a few goodies. Newegg has the second-gen Amazon Echo for $ 79.99, a nice $ 20 off the MSRP. While this sale is not unheard of, the retailer is also offering an additional $ 10 gift card with your order, gratis. That’s pretty good, all things considered.

Some people take lawn care very seriously, and for good reason; after all, it’s the first thing people see when they come to your house. Watering is a major part of a well-kept lawn, and now you can have the best grass in the neighborhood with the discounted Blossom 7 Smart Watering Controller. This unit usually goes for $ 90-120, but it’s available for a hair over $ 50 right now.

The Blossom 7 uses constantly-updated satellite-based weather data so that your sprinklers only turn on when they need to, preventing potentially harmful overwatering.

Philips makes some of the best smart light bulbs on the planet, but they can get pretty expensive. Just one of those fancy colored bulbs costs $ 50. If you don’t care for the fancy color-changing bulbs, the A19 Starter Kit is $ 40 off at Best Buy and Amazon.

This kit has four A19 LED light bulbs and the required Philips Hue hub. That’s a pretty great deal when you consider that just two bulbs without a hub cost nearly $ 20.

DJI has been a leading name in drones for some time, with a large lineup with entries at various price points. We’ve actually reviewed the more budget-oriented DJI Spark and found it to be a great product overall. But if you’re looking for something a little more upscale, the Mavic Pro is being discounted in anticipation of Black Friday.

Within the Mavic Pro’s compact body are a number of technologies, including the OcuSync transmission system that features up to 4.3 miles of range, ActiveTrack and TapFly to produce professional-looking video, and Obstacle Avoidance so you don’t run into anything.

You might remember Google announced a lot of Assistant things at its big event last month. One of those things was routines for linking multiple Assistant devices together with a single command. Well, Amazon just beat Google to the punch. Alexa now supports routines and several other new features.

Routines on Alexa are essentially the same thing Google announced last month but as thus far failed to deploy. You will be able to create a custom command in Alexa, then connect several different actions to it.

Not even a month ago, Huawei released four new MediaPad tablets. They were MediaPad T3 and MediaPad M3, with 10 and 8-inch models of each. They aren’t speed demons by any means, but they’re good enough for what most people use tablets for – web browsing and media streaming. And now you can buy them for even less.

First up is the MediaPad T3. Normally the 10″ and 8″ models go for $ 159 and $ 139 respectively, but now they are $ 139 and $ 119 on Newegg.